Iron Pentacle Drop-in Questions
How to Begin (or Re-Engage) Working with the Iron Pentacle
The Iron Pentacle is a magical and personal tool for becoming a more balanced, empowered, healed, and whole human. It's often worked individually, but working it in groups and communities is rich and rewarding - and quite practical to head towards better levels of self-knowledge, awareness in interpersonal relating, and overall group functionality. Nonetheless, in Iron Pentacle work, we're basically focusing on ourselves.
How I first got to know the Iron Pentacle — and how I like to re-engage with it after I've been away for a while — is through its points of Sex, Pride, Self, Power, and Passion. I do a deep drop into each of them and check in with what I find there — the feel of it, current issues, any cloudiness or unresolved pieces, hidden gems.
I like to journal, followed maybe by dancing and then running the Iron Pentacle — you might draw or paint, meditate, drum, or something else.
Here are some journaling prompts — feel free to personalize and adapt them.
SEX 
- What are my current sexual and erotic desires, needs, and wishes and am I meeting these?
- How and where am I celebrating my life force?
PRIDE 
- How are pride and shame working in my life right now?
- Am I able to show up as myself in all the areas of my life — work, social, family, intimate, creative, spiritual?
SELF 
- Who am I today and how is that different from who I was one, five, ten, and twenty years ago?
- How do I feel myself changing/what are my areas of personal growth and learning right now?
POWER 
- In what areas of my life am I in right-sized power? In what areas am I deflated and inflated?
- What important lesson about power am I learning at this time?
PASSION 
- What is one thing I long to do that I'm not doing, even if it sounds frivolous, impossible, or impractical?
- If I lived a fully passionate life, how would that be different from the life I'm living now?
For more on the Iron Pentacle, read Jane Meredith & Fio Gede Parma's co-authored book Magic of the Iron Pentacle: Reclaiming Sex, Pride, Self, Power & Passion.